to the euro zone germany is not going to come to the rescue we had the prime minister of russia indeed estimate here that he was saying just the other day russia has the biggest foreign exchange reserves in the world something like five hundred billion or there or thereabouts and actually they're trying to have fewer and fewer holdings and heroes it may be another year it may be a long time but ultimately the euro has a horrible counsellor at its core and it's very very difficult to see how the currency will survive in the longer term i want to talk about paris a little bit it's tied up in a military campaign in mali that must be costing a fortune i mean where is this money coming from well that's a very good question i mean there are those who of course watched that incredibly interesting movie walk the dog where famously a lackluster president of the united states of america launched a war somewhere that nobody really heard of an old time at least try to win back public opinion i'm not here we have of course president hollande

a man who couldn't even decide between his mistresses apparently according to his biographers has alternately waged the ultimate wired the dog movie war i mean he's going all the way to well timbuktu in order to manage to fight how are they managing to pay for it that's a very good question actually bear in mind the fact that something like twenty percent of all the french budget for military which is a very significant one indeed goes on actually paying the pensions of the existing war veterans of the french army fair in mind also the fact that actually the biggest problem that the french military have had not amongst the soldiers they're very well trained and excellent fighting force per se but it's actually been in the logistics they're having to borrow petrol and transporters an aircraft from all sorts of other nations such as the british coast they contact the money to reach the theater of operations in the middle of africa that demonstrates just how overstretched the french economy is although of course we could bear in mind the fact. actually france is still

a top league in terms of military spending it's one of the bigger spenders in the world all its military but of course it has huge problems because it doesn't even have enough petrol tankers to manage to get the aircraft flying all the way to africa all day long and the french are very outspoken when it comes to the a rights could we witness the same amount of street protests like say in greece. well i think the situation in france is the fact that you have an amazing economic and educational system that. provides a certain degree of socialist almost communist tribute finking within the state of and about larks well you know that wonderful word in the english language entrepreneur who could have thought of that word i wonder in what language the difficulty is but the french ultimately don't understand the fact that the state will not come to your rescue because ultimately it can't afford to the french or indignant at the idea that the government is not going to solve all the problems in

their massive malaria's but in truth it can't there's no money left the money have to remind mr sap of the labor minister said a grip deal of truth the other day absolutely there is a state but it's a totally bankrupt statement from. an executive director devi advisors we're going to have to deal with right there but we it's always a pleasure speaking to you thank you. a week of pretrial hearings has kicked off the infamous us guantanamo bay detention camp and the case of the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks and his four accomplices among issues in the here inside the secret overseas cia prisons where the defendants were cared to before being taken to guantanamo defense lawyers have asked the judge to order the u.s. government to release documents regarding the cia's alleged role moving suspects across international borders and to war activists are flanders says the agency was using the so-called black sites to if they'd human rights nor. the reason

for their existence as it's part of the u.s. war on terror which is using systematic terror against thousands of innocent people the u.n. report said twenty seven thousand prisoners had been held by the u.s. in secret prisons of course in afghanistan and iraq but country so out the middle east countries. europe and africa. on more than seventeen u.s. ships there were secret prisons so this is really part of a vast scale of thousands of people being held without salute lee no rights whatsoever and being subject to horrendous torture originally the us claimed they could hold prisoners outside the us because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva conventions and to international law and humanitarian law which in their twisted thinking they said existed only within the us so the idea of holding

prisoners around the world in secret detention was they were there for again according to this twisted logic and new to any international law human rights law or conventions that the u.s. had signed. the u.s. senate panel approves a john kerry as the next secretary of state and as the nation's least top diplomat to take up the job we also caught different will he be from his. wealthy british soil some time tirelessly. market. has come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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profit out of them is a very high return on investment. you'll know me and he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to play the armed groups in a meeting that is not a manager's or change their name and strategy but just still the same budrus. high ranking suspects give no comment pretty upset about that mr president goes. to president putin and. both the media. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is a dead. end and he says sick and stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. even if they're your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. regards from synch

i've never heard of such a case as ours where so much money and gold has scope so many. for all the gold in colombia on our t.v. . hello there welcome to business i'm katie throw in thank you for your company now moscow is on a mission to become one of the leading world financial centers bad as good as what can turn considering russia's capital now sits sixty fourth place among seventy seven global financial hubs now russia's prime minister medvedev has held a governmental meeting to discuss moscow's missions and i'm joined now by our

correspondent for they. do tell me the burning question is where where and way i should say is this grand center going to be set of cases they will think about very very that's what you have said today at the meeting there will be a special working group set up there to decide where you cannot a cluster of banks and other organizations will be built and it will become finally become a heart of the financial center it's funny you say that they because you just said another i thought i'd already seen the heart of moscow i mean you know what to look at also is it is the skyscrapers or. what is not enough right so what about one two three four what is. going to contradict myself here because if i think about london wall street hong kong they don't just have one cluster of buildings do they for a five. listen just picking a place in one of two or three places and the scene and building several skyscrapers doesn't make a world financial sound today the those responsible for turning moscow into

a financial hub pointed out a lot of moscow problems that keep the city on the bottom of the rating let's listen to the graham. part of the problem of moscow traffic jams a lack of economy class hotels lack of legal quality real estate available for rent right now absence of multi language and education through the city shortage of english speaking health care organizations we have to solve all these problems in order to create an international financial center. you know just listening to that just going to say that sounds like a lot of work that's no picnic that's a walk in the park and it's certainly something that's not going to happen overnight i mean no one not trying to be funny but thinking about grass of though those are not renowned for being. rich but i'm actually more positive here because physical infrastructure is secondary to the financial infrastructure now this is

what the government should focus on as today they said that in long carrots for the international investors still be tax benefits proper regulation deep capital markets and i should say that russia indeed in this sphere russia is making some progress for example last year russia's two stock market however have merged you're going to. get i think you know ok but overall overall the financial infrastructure needs changing it's becoming more healthy and competitive as the head of russia's second largest bank we have to be told us in davos right i should say that russian banking sector industry is one of the most competitive. that is near one thousand banks in russia. there's a major international bangs. present in russia so shouldn't say there's not enough banks or there's not enough competition is again the sector is one of the most competitive we should go to for clients and we would like to increase competition

and we are eager to do so right you say proves what i said there interesting stuff absolutely you know what if more fabulous tall buildings going to in moscow. thank you very much dave in time thank you i will move on then the federal reserve begins its two day monetary policy mason today investors are watching closely full some clues on when or indeed if the federal rein in stimulus measures which means the bull markets are particularly edges this present by economists that the fed will remain it's more of the policy of aggressive easing at the end of the meetings and will keep it in place until the all signs of broad based expansion professor of economics at yale university a leg to vince cable out lies the two major problems facing washington. and their large problem for the united states with this regard is twofold first is

a significant expansion of debt during the time off fighting the recent financial crisis the unprecedented increase in the government that all this down will have to take some time so far the solution is to pay it back by confusing taxes and all of them by cutting down the government during the second problem of the second more and more important problem than just the monitor of the debt ceiling or the fiscal cliff i think is a significant force in the role of economic policy that is five years ago if i face a. journalist that you asked me face problems with service and it's it's. probably no you know lunatic aside now this possibility that perhaps not their ally. still is on the take. and this is just a byproduct waltz in washington all the phenomena of the kind of policy you know

the most important economy in the world. but without a minus check out the markets us will be able to see they are indeed mixed but the down watch lee continues north actually averaging a five year high and that's despite u.s. confidence coming out. not by taxes and spanks over in washington but gains on the dollar though really thanks to corporate earnings from the likes of drug make a fire which rose two point eight percent of the higher than expected full year profit and energy shares as well collines also having a good session reporting a twenty fold profit so that's why it is half a percent for the dow. started out now the footsie in london as you can see seven tenths of a cent london had a good day of it which indicates that investors are expecting more stimulus bank measures going forward mining shares with the standout game is the dax also finished up above the line although ford motors warned about it weakening business

in europe today sent out for the dax the russian markets had a disappointing day we had both indices finishing up the session in the red firmly in the red as you can see just for both forces the russian ruble finished up the day. you can see just there against the euro and indeed the u.s. dollar up. moving on those are the markets we will crack on gas problem will pile further costs into the south stream project by expanding its partners to take gas to south eastern europe bypassing transit countries ukraine and belarus and russia's gas giant nearly seventeen billion dollars which makes the projected toto a staggering thirty eight point four billion dollars the pipeline is already thought to be an unnecessary expense by some analysts who questioned whether south stream is needed given the flagging demand for russian gas in the most lucrative

market which of course is europe now russia's response is that the south stream is needed in order to diversify supply routes to the european union all of the disputes we've ukraine led to cut off for part of europe back in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine which was a major blow for both parties considering russia supplies around a quarter of europe's gas me. moving on cyprus is counting on european union leaders to allow russia to financially support the struggling economy the country's prime minister told a state radio station that the e.u. are trying to walk out of russia is able to participate along with international lenders and a financial aid package for cyprus now officially because we are has only requested that a two point five billion euro loan payment received in two thousand and eleven for moscow and show due to be paid back in twenty six deed big standard by five more years germany has also cost out over the bailout criticizing cypriot banks as being

havens with tax evaders and money launderers for russian oligarchs now despite its small seventeen point five billion euro recession hit economy there often is that if cyprus is allowed to default then it could trigger another crisis in the euro zone and risk the spread of contagion. well it's all business now i'll be back in less than two hours with another dissimilar market update in the meantime they say we've got plenty of money and all. reparable loopy fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really

bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four were thugs come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion.

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you watching or it is good to have your company this evening president obama has mad with please choose from cities in the u.s. where mass shootings have occurred he wants their support for a review of the country's gun control policy obama's proposal of tougher gun regulations and a ban on assault weapons has divided public opinion with many standing by the constitution second amendment the right to bear arms is gonna cheat you can reports . white house proposals to regulate gun sales there are a wave of protest among those who believe the second amendment of the constitution is in danger as our amendment that there are a right arms it is a god given right to the sanctity of the second amendment to meet heated national debate someone makers of even threaten to impeach the president to protect the constitution we're going to use every tool possible to fight in the ministration which wants to abrogate the constitution but do u.s.

lawmakers feel strongly about all amendments of that same constitution last month congress seamlessly without much ado passed legislation which gives the government sweeping powers to eavesdrop on communications and review e-mails of anyone they want it's called the foreign intelligence surveillance act the president amendments act completely is an infringement on your fourth amendment right against unlawful search and seizure and basically does away with the probable cause requirement there's been no national debate on the fourth amendment the mainstream media have been mute on the subject so to score it now as people don't even know about it if you're really savvy and you read a lot of online media you might have heard about pfizer being reauthorized otherwise you're just totally unaware of it and how can you have an opinion on something that you're unaware of that proved to be true as we went out to ask people whether they knew what feisal was than what it could do to their fourth amendment rights have you heard about feisal but you know no sorry i think i have

some idea that it has to do with our taxes but i don't really know but not surprisingly the same people that have opinions on gun control to keep our guns we're pretty pro-gun control right now the government spying bill is not the only legislation that sneaked under the radar of public debate indefinite detention of americans without trial made legal is seen by many lawyers as a blatant violation of the fifth amendment which guarantees due process that was. something that should have been discussed in the presidential debates and people were begging the moderators to mention this it was never mentioned it was just not a part of the debates the constitution may be sicker to many in the us but it seems in washington to bypass it it's enough to say to magic words national security the deal is pass these bills i feel like all that has to happen is literally like dianne feinstein waves a letter and says national security and the fear mongering begins and shuts down

any kind of debate yet we're having a freewheeling debate on guns some argue it's money that keeps the gun debate at the forefront the national rifle association reportedly spent around twenty four million dollars on congressional elections last year and even more on lobbying to an extent when even as the majority of americans support some regulation on guns gun is to zeerust believe no substantive legislation will be passed by the congress he is not going to be able to get anything through congress so i think that the second amendment will be ok the media in the us essentially broke into two camps each bringing all kinds of arguments against the other both sides again and again reading into the text of the second amendment or doing what proposal would or would not be infringe on the people's rights as nasty as they get sometimes but that's what a national debate should look like but one can't help asking where was that big that

heated debate when other liberties were at stake in washington i'm going to check out. on our website right now while people vented their anger that government cuts reeses finance minister is taking a bright future for the country and out about the source of his optimism and. aroma landmark is about to get a facelift luxuries. national brand is ready to pull out million splits restoration going life quality to. the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved president obama's nomination of john kerry as the next secretary of state he was chosen to succeed hillary clinton who is stepping down after four yes in the shop politics and international studies professor stevens's and believes john kerry is likely to be very much all school in

his approach here is an outspoken supporter of the iraq war and being among the you know right wing minority of democrats on capitol hill that both authorize the war but. not only. making lovely stansell john kerry sails about mass and biological and chemical weapons stockpiles and nuclear program let me give you just as you the recent storms i can't think. it was clear that that was all just often enough there had so-called right was a mass destruction you said you were it's total war anyway because saddam hussein was a terrible the usurer and they have the capacity of making those kind of weapons sometimes mention of course i got it right here or there for one in thirty countries regard here and it's a lose that i have the privilege of your job though under this resolution kerry was essentially they can reopen so the lie that hey you have a right to believe and he is on the side of the moral needle you know rather than i

was your sash years ago and now in libya we're seeing all those fox pointers in terms of a tour of thousand men under arms. and these militias are controlled by the government you see the fault spread from ali velshi area elsewhere is a sales part of shortsightedness that we've seen some of the other politicians in washington. in just a few minutes on the bag with the headlines here on r.t. to stay with us. it's. the first baby steps i join. folds and bones are not a big deal. but they can cause terrible trauma.

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